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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Deuteronomy 13:9 - 13:9
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thou shalt surely kill him - not hastily, or in a private manner, but after trial and conviction; and his relative, as informer, was to cast the first stone (see on Deu 17:2; see on Act 7:58). It is manifest that what was done in secret could not be legally proved by a single informer; and hence Jewish writers say that spies were set in some private part of the house, to hear the conversation and watch the conduct of a person suspected of idolatrous tendencies.